Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-02
REAL ESTATE.
COMBINATION LAND co
SPECIAL NO. 4.

| Oh EOlhA IOs Fs
! 1.-THE old oligarchy of Greece now abolished
Were jolly and genial and fond of the arts,
| Their tastes were refined, their manners were
polished,
But their manner of living laffects their
hearts.
They neglected their business, they gave
themselves airs,
:. wine, took their rest,
Never troubling their beautiful heads with
affairs,
And as for their morals-the least said the
best.
The scandal grew greater and greater; and
An appeal to the people was formally made,
The old gods were displaced by the suffrage
And popular government formed in their
stead"
But time rolls around, and Athena and Juno
And Daphne and Hebe and Flora and
Crete,
And dozen or more Heathen women whom
you know,
Each finds work at LEucADIA, naming a
street.
The Tyre that in Hades once twanged for
Eurydice
Now praises LEUCADIA, Queen of our Coast,
And the Tyre tells the truth when it says
| ne'er before did see
place where the truth seems a lie and a
boast.
Where else is spot where the fig and the
will grow side by side without water or
care,
And each visitor feel as if he were some kin
To God when he breathes the electrical
air?
If man has a hundred or two hundred
handy,
He will buy lot there. not a day will he
wait,
For LEucADIA the lovely, the darling, the
dandy,
Is the brightest and neatest young town in
the State.
For climate, for health, for beauty or bust
ness,
LEUCApIA we praise in Hexameters slow.
Let our readers with spi its elated to diZzi-
ness,
Attend at the auction and bid with bow.
There are hundreds of thousands of acres
OF land in Los Angeles, San Bernardino and
San Diego counties, suitable for orchards and
vineyards.
But there is only one seaside and only one
LEUCADIA. There are hundreds of thousands
of acres now dry and uncultivated, which
chards
But there is only one strip of land which
| fronts the sea, only one fundamental chord
| upon which the surges of ocean sound theiI
mighty diapasOn, only one place where Dame
Nature wears her skirt of translucent beryl
| broidered with foamy lace. And nowhere
| is this music-room and picture gallery of the
Deity so attractive as at LEUCADIA.
Capital can construct reservoirs and fumes
and railroads; it can make distant acres &C
| cessible, and cause arid acres to undulate
with verdure.
But the wealth of Jay Gould could not
the bedside of the invalid in the hot valley,
or add one yard to the present limited supply
of ocean beach.
We say limited-go to the map and look!
All the seaside north of Santa Barbara may
be eliminated from the list of available
Ocean-side property. The Japanese ocean
current-the Gulf Stream" Of the Pacific,
in its southwark journey from Arctic waters
Fuca to Point Conception. The result is
cold Waterloo cold for comfortable bath.
ing. Monterey, for instance, is in the lati-
tude of Savannah, Georgia, but nine people
big tanks where the water is warmed by arti-
fetal heat, and do not bathe in the ocean.
AS for Santa Cruz, there is a couplet written
by some shivering pleasure seeker, on the
walls OF bath h-house there, which couplet ac-
curately expresses the situation.
One dip" and you've got enough"
At Point Concepcion-just above Santa
Barbara-the cold, ocean current continues
southwark in q direct course, while the
Coast line defects eastwardly at a sharr
ANGLE and in few miles the water, under
| warm enough to make bathing in any month
of the y ar a real pleasure instead of ''s
painful duty reluctantly performed" al
Millard Fillmore said when he signed the
i FIN Ui nd ao ri nI, mn
remarked when he married his eighteenth
wife.
From Santa Barbara south to Point Vicente
there is but little coast that is available fol
seaside resorts The beach is too steep fol
driving, and the surf consequently too heavy
to make bathing either pleasant or safe
while the bluff along the beach is severa
hundred feet in height, and cut up with
arrOyos, so as to make the ocean practically
inaccessible to all except Alpine tourists ant
| crows.
From Point Vicente to San Pedro are pro
badly twenty OF thirty miles of available
Monica, Ballona, Long Beach, etc. All these
| are upon the flat-table land which runs from
the top of the bluff inland. There is NJ
slope, and therefor no view of the ocean, ex
cept from the as venue along the very edge o.
the bluff. The beach is passable but not al
ways desirable for driving, and the under
tow is often heavy, so that surf-bathers are
not safe unless they use the lines connected
WIN DuOyS, ancnOfeu III ueep water. AnC
they do use them, for on a Sunday at SAINT,
Monica, you can see twenty or thirty bather
attired in scant garments of many colOrs
strung along a rope, and MS they resemble al
immense animated kite-tale swaying in
| high wind.
Below San Pedro there are only mud flat
and iagoons, until San Juan by the sea il
reached. This place is open to the same OBJ
ljections as Santa Monica. There is an ex
tremely high bluff and table land from tn,
bluff inland, and from only one street on th
edge of the bluff can an ocean view be oh
tained. Leaving San Juan, there is n,
ground available for a seaside resort unit
the mouth OF Temecula Canon is crossed ant
Oceanside reached. At Oceanside, the direc
road from Los Angeles to San Diego, now il
the California Southern Railroad from Col
ton to San Diego. Oceanside lots are held a
good figures, fifteen hundred dollars for
lot on the Ocean avenue and five hundret
dollars for resident lots Il mile and NOR
from the beach, South of Oceanside is tn
Aqua Hedionda 1t has several miles of fin
seaside, but the owner Is able to keep it, h,
will not sell at any price, and If you ammo.
him with an attempt to talk about selling, h
will make the interview az brief as may b
consistent with courtesy. Then comes Carls
bad, and 1t is beautiful location, and ther
will be large town there. and prices of lot
From Carlsbad south there are lagOons, SAM
dunes and broken ground until you reacl
the mouth of the San Marcos. From the Sal
Marcos south to Encenitas is the pretties
site in the world for an ocean city, and Of
this site is "Leucadia"-the subject of ou
sketch. Encinitas has q good location, bu
somehow it started wrong. The ownershi